Pencil-holder.



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PENCIL HOLDER.

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940,822. Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

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WILLIAM E. PHILO, OF STOCKTON, CALIFORNIA.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 23, 1909.

Application filed April 18, 1906. Serial No. 312,343.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM E. PI-IILO, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Stockton, in the county of San Joaquin and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inPencil-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, and the ch aracters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to pocket pencil holders and my object is toproduce such a holder as will retain a pencil or pen in a persons pocketwithout danger of the same falling therefrom no matter in what positionthe person may be. This object 1 accomplish by providing a spiral springholder arranged as hereinafter shown.

In the drawings similar characters of reference indicate correspondingparts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is the same with apencil inserted therein. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same with thepin and catch dissociated.

l is a spiral spring provided at one end with a pin 2 extendinglongitudinally thereof and at the other end with a hook or catch 3 theupper part of which is provided with a small teat t extending downwardlyabout the center thereof. In using the invention the pin 2 is insertedin the cloth on the inside of a persons pocket and then engaged with thecatch 3, the teat at preventing the said pin from springing past thesaid hook and thus hindering the insertion of the same in the said hook.

The appearance of the holder will be readily apparent from an inspectionof the several figures of the drawings, and the manner in which a pencilis held therein will be readily seen by reference to Fig. 2 thereof.Attention is, however, called to the specific construction of the coilwhich receives the pencil and constitutes the holder per 86 therefor. Itwill be noted that the convolutions of the coil are widely separatedfrom one another and that the space between said convolutions increasestoward the end of the coil which carries the catch 3. Thus the two endconvolutions of the coil at that end of the device which is theinsertion end for the pencil, lie at an angle to the longitudinal axisof the coils which more nearly approaches a right angle than is the caseinthe remaining convolutions of said coil, the second convolution fromthe catch carrying end of the device being separated a greater distancefrom the third convolution than the two end convolutions above referredto are separated from each other, while the convolution at the catch endof the coil is still more widely separated, and the end 6 of the wireextends outwardly and lies in a plane parallel to the said axis of thecoil, in order that said catch 3 may be readily secured thereon. It isfurther noted that the catch 3 is secured on the end 6 in such a mannerthat the shorter side 7 thereof will contact the pencil when the deviceis in use, as plainly shown in Fig. 2, while the longer side 8 will liein a parallel plane and slightly spaced therefrom. Such contacting isrendered possible by normally positioning said end 6 within a plane ofthe radius of the coils as best shown in Fig. 8, the insertion of thepencil slightly deflecting such end portion which then acts to grip thepencil. Owing to this relative arrangement of the convolutions of thecoil there is normally afforded a greater resilient range of movementduring the expansion and contraction of the outermost convolutionthereof than there is for the remainder of said convolutions, the objectof this provision being to give such range of movement for the saidouter convolution as to permit it to engage and firmly grip the pencilso as to hold the latter securely. That is, the coil constructed asshown and described when compressed or contracted longitudinally,permits the ready insertion of a pencil therein, which may be ofmaterially smaller diameter than the bore of said coil when the latteris so compressed or contracted, yet when said coil is permitted toexpand, the convolutions moving to their normal positions reduce thesize of said bore through the coil and result in a firm gripping of thepencil.

The inner faces of the coils are flattened as shown in Fig. 1, so thatwhen the pencil or like article indicated as 5 is inserted, the materialof the pencil comes in contact with the flattened surfaces, therebyincreasing the grip upon the same, and correspondingly increasing theefiiciency of the device. When it is desired to insert a pencil 5, thespring coil 1 is longitudinally contracted with the ice I fingers andthe said pencil inserted therein. Then the spring is allowed to expandagain which causes it to grip the pencil firmly thus holding it so thatit cannot fall from the pocket.

My device is adaptable to pens, pencils ,or anything of a likenature.

I have now entered into a full and detailed description of my invention.

Many small changes may be made in the exact detail of constructionwithin the scope of the appended claims without departing from thespirit thereof.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new and useful thefollowing claim and desire to secure the same by Letters Patent:

A device of the class described comprising a single piece of .wirepointed at one end, and having a straightened portion at its oppositeend, acatch for the pointed end secured to said straightened portion,the remainder of the wire between the pointed end and the straightenedportion formed into a.

plurality of pencil receiving coils with the lnner faces of the COllSflattened whereby the flattened port-ion bears against the pen- .cil,said straightened end normally positioned parallel to the axis of andwithin the plane of the radius of the coils, the end convolution of thecoils adjacent the catch sep arated from the adjacent coil a greaterdistance than the remaining coils are separated from each other, theconvolution adjacent such end convolution separated from the WILLIAM E.PHILO.

Vitnesses PERCY S. W'EBsrER, JOSHUA B. \Vnesrnn.

